This, I'Ve Just Discovered
You constantly amaze me
And I want to walk up the steps of your palm
Into your cabin tips
I could watch the sun set in your eyes
In a room without doors or windows
You’re like a bedtime story told in a field to mice.
Every reaction you create becomes a dream in a billygoat’s mind
I want to holler on the cliff with you
In a sunset tree with you
While the fireflies bathe in our sweat with pine
Every stare you give me is popping with deer licks
Cat stretches wolf wounds and butterfly heart beats
You come to me like the smell of breakfast in the morning
Whenever I make you smile
I feel like a hairless dog in a hot spring
Being scrubbed with fresh sugar cane
My brain is a mall for the shopper cells
To buy beautiful gifts for the
Christmastime of You
My brain cells are ice cream balls
Rolling through a lime tart pinball machine
Where every time they hit popsicles
They fall apart into wished-upon stars
Baby ducks
Muffins in May
And Mary Magdalene’s eyes
All because of your windowsill butter words.
You are something to be thought of while on a mountain in the middle of nowhere
While eating a hot sandwich
Or seeing children on Michigan sand bars.
To hold your hand would be to wander into a peanut shell on a forest floor
You are a sad thought’s worst nightmare
Your laugh is a trip past Kentucky
Your hair is hot rain falling on the prairie
Your mind is a bowl of mixed grains
And I could watch you wake up like a child watches cookies baking in the oven
I could watch you eat like I really, truly love you.
This, I’ve just discovered.
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